# 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 7–8 March 2014.
The winning margin was an impressive 6.51 seconds which as of July 2024 remains the only time the women's 1500 metres was won by more than six seconds at these championships.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Abeba Aregawi Sweden | Axumawit Embaye Ethiopia | Nicole Sifuentes Canada |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) | 3:55.17 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 1 February 2014 |
| Championship record | Gelete Burka (ETH) | 3:59.75 | Valencia, Spain | 9 March 2008 |
| World Leading | Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) | 3:55.17 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 1 February 2014 |
| African record | Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) | 3:55.17 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 1 February 2014 |
| Asian record | Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR) | 3:59.79 | Valencia, Spain | 9 March 2008 |
| European record | Abeba Aregawi (SWE) | 3:57.91 | Stockholm, Sweden | 6 February 2014 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Regina Jacobs (USA) | 3:59.98 | Boston, United States | 1 February 2003 |
| Oceanian Record | Sarah Jamieson (AUS) | 4:11.08 | Boston, United States | 7 February 2009 |
| South American record | Letitia Vriesde (SUR) | 4:14.05 | Budapest, Hungary | 12 February 1992 |

## Qualification standards

| Indoor | Outdoor |
| 4:14.00 or 4:31.00 (Mile) | 4:03.50 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 7 March 2014 | 19:35 | Heats |
| 8 March 2014 | 19:00 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Abeba Aregawi | Sweden | 4:08.74 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Axumawit Embaye | Ethiopia | 4:09.46 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Nicole Sifuentes | Canada | 4:09.49 | q, PB |
| 4 | 2 | Siham Hilali | Morocco | 4:09.76 | q, SB |
| 5 | 2 | Svetlana Karamasheva | Russia | 4:10.91 | q, SB |
| 6 | 1 | Rababe Arafi | Morocco | 4:10.95 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Heather Kampf | United States | 4:11.27 | Q, PB |
| DQ | 1 | Yelena Korobkina | Russia | 4:11.43 | Doping |
| 9 | 1 | Gudaf Tsegay | Ethiopia | 4:11.83 | |
| 10 | 1 | Jemma Simpson | Great Britain | 4:11.93 | |
| 11 | 3 | Treniere Moser | United States | 4:12.63 | Q |
| 12 | 1 | Danuta Urbanik | Poland | 4:13.34 | |
| 13 | 3 | Luiza Gega | Albania | 4:13.78 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | Katarzyna Broniatowska | Poland | 4:14.31 | |
| 15 | 2 | Claire Tarplee | Ireland | 4:15.64 | |
| 16 | 3 | Mimi Belete | Bahrain | 4:16.02 | |
| 17 | 3 | Isabel Macías | Spain | 4:17.14 | |
| 18 | 3 | Maruša Mišmaš | Slovenia | 4:18.92 | |
| 19 | 1 | Eliane Saholinirina | Madagascar | 4:19.64 | NR |
| DQ | 3 | Gamze Bulut | Turkey | 4:24.52 | Doping |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Abeba Aregawi | Sweden | 4:00.61 | |
| | Axumawit Embaye | Ethiopia | 4:07.12 | PB |
| | Nicole Sifuentes | Canada | 4:07.61 | NR |
| 4 | Siham Hilali | Morocco | 4:07.62 | SB |
| 5 | Treniere Moser | United States | 4:07.84 | PB |
| 6 | Luiza Gega | Albania | 4:08.24 | |
| 7 | Svetlana Karamasheva | Russia | 4:13.89 | |
| | Rababe Arafi | Morocco | DQ | R163.3(b) |
| | Heather Kampf | United States | DQ | R163.3(b) |